Thursday, April 15, 2021

Blogging from A to Z: M is for Milk Snake

 


Red Milk Snake picture Mike Pingleton, Wikipedia

The Milk Snake is a colorful, non venomous snake that has 24 subspecies. They are opportunistic eaters but mainly eat rodents as adults.

A look at someone's pet milk snake...



6 comments:

Lisa said...

They are beautiful snakes.

Arlee Bird said...

Well, it's interesting, but not something I think I'd want to encounter in the wild. Especially not with my wife as she'd probably have a terror attack because she's deathly afraid of snakes.

Arlee Bird
Tossing It Out

Janet said...

Oh, very pretty! But I have to tell you I read it first as MILK SHAKE! LOL

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Birgit said...

She is very pretty and this snake is harmless but has similar markings to, is it the coral snake?? That one is poisonous.

Anne E.G. Nydam said...

So beautiful! When I was little my mother taught us the rhyme "Red and yellow, dangerous fellow (= coral snake), red and black, venom lack (=milk snake)." You look to see whether the red stripes come next to the yellow stripes or the black stripes. Not that we had either type of snake around where I grew up (well, milk snakes were possible, but I never saw one), but it was fun to know the difference.
Black and White: P for Plurimiregia

CAAC said...

Mike,

I'm in awe of how some folks like to keep snakes as a pet. These critters do not strike me as the warm, fuzzy kind of pets. In fact, they creep me out. Although it's not a poisonous snake if I saw it, I'd be alarmed because of it's colors. I can never remember the little rhyme.

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